CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I. 
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 
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Original and secondary sources of data—William Scoresby, “An 
Account of the Arctic Regions’—Origin and development of 
whaling—Obed Macy, “History of Nantucket’—Early Amer- 
ican whaling—Daniel Ricketson, “History of New Bedford’— 
Lorenzo Sabine, “Report on the Principal Fisheries of the Amer- 
can Seas’—C. M. Scammon, “An Account of the American 
Whale Fishery’—Pacific whaling—Alexander Starbuck, “His- 
tory of the American Whale Fishery”—Colonial whale fishery— 
Criticism of Starbuck’s history—G. Browne Goode, “Fishing 
Industries of the United States’—‘Whalemen’s Shipping List.” 1 
CHAPTER il: 
THE ORIGIN OF WHALING. 
Early European whaling—Biscay fishermen—Hakluyt’s reference 
to first whaling—Norwegian fishery—Early references to 
French whale fishery—Danish record—Beginning of English 
whaling—In the sixteenth century—Later Biscay fishery— 
End of French Whaling—Rise of the English industry—Spitz- 
bergen fishery—Rivalry for whaling supremacy—Russian Com- 
pany—Dutch and Spanish competition—Division of Spitz- 
bergen grounds—Dutch success—South Sea Company—Green- 
land Company—English reverses—English bounties—Dutch 
supremacy— Decline of Dutch industry—Similarity in histories 
Greaauicn,. Enshsh and. Aamerican whaling, «0 i.:ch joes <eanseen eG 
CHAPTER Iii. 
THE RISE OF AMERICAN WHALING, FROM THE SETTLING 
OF MASSACHUSETTS TO THE WAR OF 1812. 
Abundant supply of whales—Colonists’ knowledge of whaling— 
Early records in colonial laws—Ownership of drift whales 
First whaling in Massachusetts—Plymouth colony—Salem— 
